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Table 2 Phylogenetic diversity indices of AH frogs and NH frogs

From: Functional analysis for gut microbes of the brown tree frog (Polypedates megacephalus) in artificial hibernation

Diversity indices

NH frogs

AH frogs

Fall

Winter

Spring

4 °C

Richness

375 ± 165a

350 ± 163a

282 ± 66a

91 ± 15b

Shannon index

3.50 ± 0.68a

3.45 ± 0.53a

3.46 ± 0.42a

1.88 ± 0.51b

Simpson index

0.90 ± 0.11

0.91 ± 0.05

0.91 ± 0.05

0.76 ± 0.11

Inverse Simpson index

16.58 ± 12.63a

14.86 ± 7.75a

15.26 ± 7.51a

4.80 ± 1.86b

  1. Abbreviations: AH frogs artificially hibernating frogs, NH frogs nonhibernating frogs. Values are means ± SD. Within each row, values not sharing superscripts (a and b) differ significantly (p-value < 0.05, Student’s t-test)